Quotemeal for Thursday, September 24, 2009

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

— Mark Finley

More Quotemeal

"The modern church rejects the outcasts of society where as these very outcasts were the very ones who were drawn to Jesus."

— Philip Yancey —

"Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within."

— Jim Elliot —

"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

— John Owen —

"Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes..."

— John Owen —